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The exorcism stories in Luke-Acts : a sociostylistic reading
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ISBN: 0521838045 0511211376 9780511211379 9780521838047 0511216742 9780511216749 051121314X 9780511213144 0511214952 9780511214950 9780511488030 0511488033 1107150523 9781107150522 1280540893 9781280540899 0511315473 9780511315473 9780521076050 0521076056 Year: 2004 Volume: 129 Publisher: Cambridge: Cambridge university press,

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This 2004 book in English integrates detailed literary criticism of the exorcism stories in Luke-Acts with wide-ranging comparative study of ancient sources on demonology, spirit affliction and exorcistic healing. Methods from systemic functional linguistics and critical theory are explained and then applied to each story. Careful focus is placed on each narrative's linguistic functions and also on relevant aspects of its literary co-text and the wider context of culture. Implications of the analysis for the new perspective on Luke-Acts, especially the implied author's relationship with Judaism, are explored in relation to the Lukan stories' original context of reception. Largely neglected interfaces between Luke's narrative representation of exorcism and emerging academic discourse about religious experience, shamanism, health care in antiquity, ritual performance and ancient Jewish systems of impurity are probed in ways that shed fresh light on this supremely alien part of the Lukan writings.

Magic in the biblical world : from the rod of Aaron to the ring of Solomon
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ISBN: 0826466842 9780826466846 Year: 2003 Volume: 245 Publisher: Sheffield: Sheffield academic press,

Magic in the Biblical world : from the rod of Aaron to the ring of Solomon
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ISBN: 9780567083623 0567083624 Year: 2003 Publisher: London ; New York : T & T Clark International,

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Metaphor, ritual, and order in John 12-13 : Judas and the prince
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ISBN: 9781032394510 103239451X 9781032416991 9781003359319 Year: 2024 Publisher: Abingdon Routledge

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Rewriting the testament of Solomon : tradition, conflict and identity in a late antique pseudepigraphon.
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ISBN: 0567043924 Year: 2005 Publisher: London Clark

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Scripture as social discourse : social-scientific perspectives on early Jewish and Christian writings
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ISBN: 9780567676047 0567676048 9780567676054 9780567684998 Year: 2018 Publisher: Edinburgh T&T Clark

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Throughout the last several decades professional biblical scholars have adapted concepts and theories from the social sciences - particularly social and cultural anthropology - in order to cast new light on ancient biblical writings, early Jewish and Christian texts that circulated with the Scriptures, and the various contexts in which these literatures were produced and first received. The present volume of essays draws much of its inspiration from that same development in the history of biblical research, while also offering insights from other, newer approaches to interpretation. The contributors to this volume explore a wide range of broadly social-scientific disciplines and discourses - cultural anthropology, sociology, archaeology, political science, the New Historicism, forced migration studies, gender studies - and provide multiple examples of the ways in which these diverse methods and theories can shed new and often fascinating light on the ancient texts. Featuring an international body of perspectives, and creating discussions surrounding the Dead Sea Scrolls, the Nag Hammadi library and previously untranslated French texts, this volume sheds new and alternate light on ancient teachings.

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